IBM's platform may help Amara to improve operational efficiency

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 28 December 2009, 18:11 IST
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Bangalore: Amara Raja Batteries, an Indian manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries has selected IBM's hardware platform to support its SAP implementation. The company has selected IBM's System Power6 570 servers with virtualization, DS 4700 Storage and Tivoli middleware for its server and storage requirements. Since long, Amara Raja Batteries was looking for a cost effective solution at both the server and storage levels to run its SAP application. The combination of higher performance per core and larger I/O and memory capacity and bandwidth per core of P570 servers will help the battery manufacturer to achieve reduction in the number of servers or the number of cores per server. The deployment thus promises reduction in cost of server acquisition and total cost of ownership for the company's IT environment. Jayakumar C, IT - Head, Amara Raja Batteries said, "We are committed to give our customers the benefits of newer technologies, without losing focus on our core business. We wanted to partner with the best technology advisor in the industry in order to leverage their expertise to lay the way for our future growth, while streamlining our operational costs." The ability to move about resources based on business needs will give Amara Raja Batteries the benefits of greater return on investment and utilization. After adopting the platform, Amara may also be able to improve its operational efficiency.